Anand Kumar Ashodhiya — Author · Poet · Researcher

Antaryātrā — The Inner Journey

An English Transliteration and Verse Collection — Contemplative Reflections on Conscience, Memory, and Moral Awareness

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Book Details

Field	Value
Title	Antaryātrā — The Inner Journey
Author	Anand Kumar Ashodhiya
Language	English
Print Length	137 pages
Publication Date	2 January 2026
ISBN-13	978-93-5626-749-7
Genre	Poetry · Philosophical Reflections · Moral Witnessing
Academic Areas	Contemporary Indian Poetry, Ethical Philosophy, Social Witness in Literature, Translation Studies
Publisher	Avikavani Publishers

About the Book

Antaryātrā — The Inner Journey is a contemplative poetry collection that explores conscience, memory, and moral awareness in a fractured contemporary world. Rather than offering ornamental verse, this work traces a sustained inward movement—an ethical pilgrimage through love and loss, violence and compassion, dissent and devotion. Each poem functions as a moment of pause, inviting readers to confront the inner echoes of lived experience.

Anand Kumar Ashodhiya’s verse engages directly with social realities and historical memory without surrendering to rhetoric or spectacle. Poems such as Danga and Kargil stand as acts of moral witnessing, addressing communal rupture and national sacrifice with restraint, clarity, and dignity. Patriotism is rendered as disciplined reverence rather than performance; protest emerges as ethical insistence rather than noise.

Intimate Lyricism and Inner Inquiry

Alongside this social awareness runs a grounded human lyricism. Love, separation, remembrance, and longing appear not as romantic excess, but as quiet aftershocks of intimacy. Personal emotion expands into philosophical inquiry, allowing individual sorrow to assume universal resonance.

Stylistically, the collection bridges the earthiness of regional idiom with the refined poise of meditative verse. The language remains unadorned yet resonant, capable of carrying folk immediacy alongside philosophical depth.

Suggested Citation

Ashodhiya, Anand Kumar. (2026). Antaryātrā — The Inner Journey: An English Transliteration. Avikavani Publishers.

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  note      = {Contemplative English poetry collection exploring conscience, memory, and moral awareness},
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This collection complements the author’s broader research on vernacular prosody, folk traditions, and moral aesthetics:

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